Tag: Wind

Renewable energy provides a significant share of the region’s energy and is higher than the EU-27 average (EEA, 2008). Almost all of the renewable energy comes from large hydropower plants; wind, solar and geothermal sou...

Offshore wind, currently around 3 000 MW, has mainly been concentrated in northern European countries, around the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. Europe’s leadership is primarily
attributed to public policy and a thriving...

The high capital cost of offshore foundations bounds offshore wind energy to near shore locations. Most of the capacity has been installed in relatively shallow waters (under 20 m deep)
no more than 20 km from the coast...

Global average temperature increased by 0.6 ° C over the last century, while sea levels rose by 9 to 20 cm. The IPCC projects increases in the global average surface temperature by between 1.4°C and 5.8°C and in sea leve...

Mangrove forests occur naturally in
intertidal zones along sheltered shorelines
and in deltas in tropical regions.
They are vital breeding grounds for fish
and shrimp and also provide a buffer
against coastal hazard...

In million tonnes of oil equivalent: wind, solar energy, biomass and hydroelectricity, comparison between different regions. All these energy sources stand as possible renewable alternatives to nuclear power and fossil f...

Wind energy generating capacity, trends in the time period 1980-1995, in megawatts for Asia, Europe And Northern America. Wind power remains one of the cleanest alternatives to fossil fuels and nuclear power.

Global development of wind in the form of wind power plants between 1980-1995, in megawatts. Wind power represents one of the most attractive and clean alternative and renewable power sources, utilizing the inhert power ...

Wind power remains one of the cleanest alternatives to fossil fuels and nuclear power. Wind energy generating capacity, trends in the period 1980-1995, in megawatts for Asia, Europe And Northern America.

Net annual addition to global wind energy generating capacity, general trend 1980-1995, in megawatts. Wind power represents a possible energy source to replace fossil fuels, like oil and coal, as well as non-renewable en...

The Soviet Union used the Ferghana Valley as one of its
main sources of metal and uranium ore. The area has many
nuclear waste storage sites, abandoned uranium mines
with poorly secured tailing dams and nuclear reacto...

Mining waste takes up a great deal of space, blights the
landscape and often affects local habitats. By its very nature it can constitute a serious safety hazard. Poor management may allow acidic and metals containing d...

This chart shows eight different sources of renewable energy and explains advantages and drawbacks of each - wind, sun (photovoltaic and thermal), geothermal, wood, ocean, waste, water (hydroelectricity).

There are 25 billion tonnes of waste just from mining and metal production in Central Asia. The most effected areas are highlighted based on a variety of different types of environmental damage such as desertification an...

There are 25 billion tonnes of waste just from mining and metal production in Central Asia. The most effected areas are highlighted based on a variety of different types of environmental damage such as desertification an...

The Kadamjai antimony plant in southern Kyrgyzstan stands close to the Uzbek border and the town of the same name. The plant annually consumes 20 000 tones of ore. Ore waste dumps are exposed to erosion by rain and wind ...

The Antarctic continent is circled by a strong wind in the stratosphere which flows around Antarctica and isolates air over Antarctica from air in the midlatitudes. The region poleward of this jet stream is called the An...

The extent of ozone depletion for any given period depends on complex interaction between chemical and climatic factors such as temperature and wind. The unusually high levels of depletion in 1988, 1993 and 2002 were due...

More than two billion people cannot access affordable energy services today. They depend on inefficient locally collected and often unprocessed biomass-based fuels, such as crop residues, wood, and animal dung. Because c...

In 1970s and 1980s - years of environmental crisis, there were few trees remaining in Niger. Wind-blown sands razed farmers' young crops and they often had to plant crops three times to succeed. Since the middle of the 1...